Communication tends to work in circles, cause and effect scenarios. This is in fact, the whole point of communication. However, research may be proving that family communication when it comes to drug abuse therapy, may be a hindrance due to cause and effect instead of a help. Observe.
Meet Joe, his wife Sue and their son Jeremy. Jeremy has experimented with drugs and is now hooked on cocaine. Sue is concerned about her son, naturally, and begins to pester Jeremy about his drug use. Now, logic would say that Jeremy would stop using, if only to get his mother off his back. That would be a circle of communication, a cause and an effect. However, instead of rendering to his mother's pleading, Jeremy withdraws. He now refuses to communicate with his mother. His father gets involved and in a series of heated arguments, Jeremy leaves home at the ripe old age of 17. This is being called a Demand-Withdrawal Interaction. One party makes a demand, the other party withdraws. The first party sees the withdrawal as defiance and raises the demand, causing the second party to withdraw further. The same can happen with a therapist. If a therapist makes a series off demands that resonate with the parental demands, it can cause adolescent withdrawal. This is called Therapist Demand-Patient Withdrawal. This shuts down a therapists lines of communication with the patient and thus rendering not only the therapist useless to the patient but also solidifies the Demand-Withdrawal in the family situation that was a problem to begin with.
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